• “ICE MATTER” – Performance at Semmelweisklinik Wien

    AN AUDIOVISUAL STAGING OF THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE ICE MATTER BASED ON FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE VATNAJÖKULL ICE CAP IN ICELAND “ICE MATTER” HIGHLIGHTS IN AN ACCELERATED TIMELINE THE LIFE AND THE EXTINCTION OF THIS IMPORTANT ICE LANDSCAPE RESIDENCY AT SEMMELWEISKLINIK VIENNANOVEMBER 2023THE ICE LIFE PROJECT

  • Feldenkrais Aktionstage

    I am teaching two free Feldenkrais ATM lessons at the “Aktionstage” of the Austrian Feldenkrais society. Tuesday 3.10. 9:30 – 10:30 Sunday 8.10. 9:30 – 10:30 You can join for free with this zoom link!

  • Synergy in Greek means ‘working together’ – New publication!

    We recently had the delight to publish with some of the best, in Kath Bicknell‘s and John Sutton‘s edited volume Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill. Publication: Kimmel, M., & Schneider, S. (2022). Intercorporeal synergy practices – perspectives from expert interaction. In K. Bicknell & J. Sutton (Eds.). Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (pp.…

  • The logic of thwarting, luring, deceiving, and converting

    Synergy dynamics can be cooperative, or lead to one-sided “wins”. Here our illustrated analysis of a Tai Chi push hands interaction, where Tai Chi expert Hella Ebel lures her push partner into overstepping and falling over.

  • Symposium: Der Stand der Denktheorie

    I am delighted to give a talk at the 2021 Symposium in Mürzzuschlag, as part of our friends and interst group around Oswald Wiener. Click me for the programme. Visit the live video stream for your favorite talk 🙂

  • First Vlog – Differentiate finger, eyes and webcam 😉

    Toying with a concept from Moshé Feldenkrais’ writings.

  • Poster at “First-Person Science of Consciousness” Conference

    I just visited the exiting conference “First-Person Science of Consciousness” at the University of Witten/Herdecke, having rewarding conversations with many scholars. This conference assembled a whole lot of people who work with and make progress concerning methodological issues in phenomenology and first-person observation, not shying away to use the word “introspection”, and to fill it…

  • “Betriebsanleitung” – Is this a new or interesting painting?

    My friend Jan Kämmerling recently published a wonderful catalogue of his paintings, titled Bedienungsanleitung/Instruction manual. I am thrilled that I could contribute an essay about my experience with Jan’s art, which I intimately know since 20 years now. My thanks go to Jan for asking me to author this essay, as he thereby encouraged me…

  • Internal circus arts

    What is aesthetically pleasing? Public perception changes, and while external forms are still thrilling (see the usual activities promoted e.g. by the Red Bull sports “circus”), other circus artists develop performances which move me deeply, only because I feel with them. Not the danger, not the difficulty of the tricks … but their play with…

  • Poster at “19. Herbstakademie Heidelberg”

    I was so fortunate to visit the most inspiring 19. Herbstakademie “Embodied Aesthetics: Resonance in Perception, Expression and Therapy” in Heidelberg, Oct. 5-7 2017. I am looking forward to a continuation of this great conference series! Together with Ricarda Emma Baumann, we presented a poster of our ongoing research on subjective experience while practicing a…

  • Selbstbeobachtung – Oswald Wieners Denkpsychologie

    – We published a compendium of our research on introspection at Suhrkamp Verlag – Nach langer Arbeit haben wir unser Buch im Suhrkamp Verlag veröffentlicht. Darin mein Aufsatz “Vorstellen als räumlich-zeitliches Konstruieren – Vorschlag zu einem Perspektivwechsel“:

  • Chauvet cave

    I was very fascinated to see the oldest paintings that we know of in (a whole bunch of) documentary (documentaries, one by the director maniac Werner Herzog) about the Chauvet cave, a reconstruction of which has just opened. Here is a short impression: Someone seems to share my fascination – I love this game about…

  • Batsheva dance performace: MAX

    I just saw the dance performance MAX of the Batsheva Dance Company. The company is located in Neve Tzedek, the beautiful and oldest quarter of what then became Tel Aviv. I enjoyed the performance very much. Especially the scenes with synchronized movements are impressive. See for yourself in the first part of the following video.…